Article written by Edward J. Malecki and 2007 DPDF The Political Economy of Redistribution Fellow Michael C. Ewers, featured in Progress in Human Geography, Volume 31, No. 4:

We place labor flows, involving both highly skilled professionals and unskilled workers, within the framework of research on world cities. These flows are central to understanding the growth of world cities, particularly those whose growth is not primarily a result of advanced producer services. The context of Arab Gulf cities allows us to understand urban growth in the region as an outcome of wealth accumulation that stimulates large flows of skilled westerners and of unskilled workers from poor regions in Asia. We conclude with an agenda for research on migration to world cities and the division of labor in those cities.

Publication Details

Title
Labor Migration to World Cities: With a Research Agenda for the Arab Gulf
Publisher
SAGE Publishing
Publish Date
August 2007
Citation
0, Labor Migration to World Cities: With a Research Agenda for the Arab Gulf (SAGE Publishing, August 2007).
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